10/29/2008 Please, welcome our new SILC Postdocs: Erica Cartmill and Liesje Spaepen.
10/29/2008 Please, welcome Ramon E. Lopez to our Network. There are now 199 members in our Spatial Network!
10/28/2008 Three articles where SILC is in the press have been placed in our PRESS ROOM. More articles (current and past) will be added to this new page.
10/28/2008 The Spatial Assessment Battery portion of our project has been removed from the site. You may need to refresh/up-date your SILC links.
10/20/2008 Please, welcome Alexander Chaucer to our Network. There are now 198 members in our Spatial Network!
10/20/2008 Info about the Neuromorphic Cognition Workshop in Sardinia is now up on our meeting page.
10/17/2008 There have been many links added on our Spatial Network page. More will be added during the coming week. As always, please let me know if an active link is not working:
10/03/2008 There are now 197 members in our Spatial Network!
10/02/2008 Our NSF Award number is now listed in our footer...a useful reference for our SILC members who need this info for publications.
10/02/2008 Many links are being added to our Network Members page. Check it out.
09/24/2008 SILC and University of Pennsylvania are co-hosting two talks at IRCS.
09/19/2008 The SILC wiki has moved to a different machine. Please, update your bookmarks for the SILC wiki to: http://silcwiki.eecs.northwestern.edu/. If you have any questions or concerns with this wiki, please contact Jeff Usher: .
09/18/2008 SILC Faculty emails have been added to our site.
09/17/2008 Advisory Board emails have been added to our site.
09/16/2008 Links added to the Advisory Board section on our SILC People page.
09/11/2008 Three publications (lead author: John Philbeck) added to the Bibliography page.
09/11/2008 Some .pdf icon documents (particularly on job opportunities page) were not opening properly (if you clicked on the icon, a message asking for your login popped up). These should be all fixed by today. As always, please continue to let Jenn Stedillie/ know about any questions/concerns you have with this new website. Thank you!
09/03/2008 Resizing of page will only happen when you first open the SILC site. Manual resizing will now keep.
09/03/2008 Elizabeth Hickey has joined our SILC Staff. Welcome!
09/02/2008 NOTE: The SILC website was down until early afternoon today.
08/28/2008 NOTE: The SILC website and the SILC wiki will be unavailable for "Labor Day" Weekend starting Friday afternoon August 29th through 10:00 pm on Monday, September 1st.
08/26/2008 There are now 196 members in our Spatial Network!
08/21/2008 The search box above is working again.
08/18/2008 The photo gallery has been up-dated with a couple of photos from the AAAI Intelligent Systems Demo.
08/18/2008 Dominique W. Dumay and Christopher J. Schilling have both joined our SILC Staff. Welcome!
08/14/2008 Publications page up-dated from Annual Report.
08/14/2008 More citations added to the Bibliography page.
08/13/2008 There are now 195 members in our Spatial Network!
08/11/2008 Our website was temporarily unavailable Friday evening August 8th. The tech support team at Northwestern University was able to get our internet access reconnected in the span of a few hours. All service should be running smoothly now.
08/11/2008 Please continue to send Jenn Stedillie notifications of links that aren't working that you need to use right away. She is going through links and checking connections through this week. After this week, be sure to let the know of any links that are still not opening correctly.
08/08/2008 SILC People page has been up-dated. Publications page has been up-dated (more publications will be added next week as well).
08/08/2008 Elise Krause (Northwestern University) has joined our SILC Staff. Welcome!
08/08/2008 Information added to Asifa Majid's entry on our Spatial Network members page; also a relevant paper by Majid, A., et al added to the Bibliography page.
08/07/2008 The photo gallery has changed. Mouseover and plain html versions available on same page.
08/01/2008 We've added a photo gallery to our website under our Resources menu! More info about the pictures and more pictures will be added as we receive them.
07/31/2008 Our new website is up and running. There are still links that may need to be fixed because of some restructuring that has happened. This will get cleaned up during the next couple of weeks (as well as a bit of tweaking here and there). Please, let Jenn Stedillie know if there is a link you need to get to right away.
07/14/2008 Pennsylvania Governor Rendell and US Congressman Joe Sestak have both issued press releases regarding the recent $10 million award.
07/08/2008 Two of our Co-P.I.s and their research, Dedre Gentner and Susan Goldin-Meadow, are mentioned in The New York Times article, "When Language Can Hold the Answer."
07/01/2008 $10 million Awarded to Pennsylvania Schools and Universities.
07/01/2008 Katrina Ferrara has joined our SILC Staff. Welcome!
05/06/2008 The link to the 2006 National Academies of Science report: "Learning to Think Spatially: GIS as a Support System in the K-12 Curriculum" has been added to our Publications News page. If you peruse our Resources page (found in our menu on the left side of this page) you will find a description of the Publications News page (we welcome suggestions for more additions to that page), as well as a host of other helpful resources and tools relevant to this site.
2/18/2008 Our meeting page has been up-dated with info on a conference: The INS and OUTS of Spatial Learning: From Theory to Practice. This will be at University of Chicago's Gleacher Center in June.
2/18/2008 Our meeting page has been up-dated with info on an Advanced Training Institute on Geographic Information Systems for Behavioral Research. This will be at the University of California, Santa Barbara in July.
1/24/2008 A list of some of Susanna Millar's (one of our Network Members) publications has been added to the Bibliography page.
1/15/2008 A link for SROP at Temple can be found here as well as in the left side menu.
1/15/2008REMINDER:Information about the Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP) is on the Links page under "Other Research/Miscellaneous." Information specific to Northwestern can be found here. There are now links for this in the menu on the left side of this webpage.
2007
12/19/2007 Information about the Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP) is on the Links page under "Other Research/Miscellaneous." Information specific to Northwestern can be found here.
11/30/2007 The Links page has been up-dated with many more links compiled from our website. There is also a brief site map for our website.
11/28/2007 There are now 156 members in our Spatial Network!
11/27/2007 SILC project members: Please note that there is a new section on our wiki devoted to spatial job opportunities: SLC Job Postings. You must be logged on to the wiki in order to view this.
11/27/2007 Info on the International Spatial Cognition Conference (SC'08) has been added to the Calls page.
11/19/2007 At long last our Publications link is now active. Please, visit that link to see what SILC has generated in terms of Publications, Presentations,and other generated resources.
11/13/2007 SILC Celebrates Opening at Temple University. See our Press Release.
11/13/2007 To SILC project members: I will be adding your access to the SLCnetwork wiki (i.e. the wiki for all the NSF Science of Learning Centers). When you are added you should receive an automatically generated email. Please email me on Thursday 11/15/07 if you have not received an email.
11/13/2007 The website menu on the left-hand side of the webpage has been up-dated and the order of menu choices has changed slightly.
11/8/2007 A link to the SLCnetwork wiki has been added to the left menu of this site (you must be a SILC project member to access pages other than the Main page)!
11/7/2007 Two new SILC project members from Northwestern University have been added to our People page.
11/1/2007 The Cognition and Communication Research Centre of Northumbria Unversity officially opens on the 3rd of December. The invitation to the lecture/opening is on the meetings site under upcoming meetings.
09/05/2007 There are now 131 members in our Spatial Network!
09/04/2007 There are now 129 members in our Spatial Network!
09/04/2007 Our servers were down during the Labor Day weekend. SILC Members: The SILC wiki is now accessible as of 12:15pm CST.
08/30/2007 Check out the up-dates to the Children's Mental Transformation Task section of the Resources page. The task instrument has been up-dated and an excel document has been added.
08/30/2007 There are now 124 members in our Spatial Network!
08/28/2007SPRING Lecture SeriesSchedule (be sure to look at our Fall Lecture Series line-up on this page):
February 2008
2/14 Temple University Spring Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Ben Kuipers
2/21 Temple University Spring Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Timothy McNamara
2/28 Temple University Spring Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Barbara Tversky
March 2008
3/6 Temple University Spring Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: TBA
3/20 Temple University Spring Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Lynn Nadel
3/27 Temple University Spring Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Frances Wang
April 2008
4/3 Temple University Spring Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: TBA
4/10 Temple University Spring Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Bill Warren
4/17 Temple University Spring Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: TBA
4/24 Temple University Spring Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Dan Montello
May 2008
5/1 Temple University Spring Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: TBA
08/28/2007 Current meetings/calls for participation that may be of interest to our Spatial Network Members, may be found here. This page also has a link on our Resources page.
08/28/2007 There are now 117 members in our Spatial Network.
08/22/2007 UPDATE FALL Lecture Series Schedule:
October 2007
10/1: University of Chicago Fall Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Jack Loomis
10/8: University of Chicago Fall Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Barbara Landau
10/15: University of Chicago Fall Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Liz Spelke
10/22: Temple University Fall Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Verne Bingman
November 2007
11/5: University of Chicago Fall Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Lynn Liben
11/7: Temple University Fall Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Mike Goodchild
11/12: University of Chicago Fall Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Steve Kosslyn
08/17/2007 There are now 116 members in our Spatial Network.
08/15/2007 There are two more SILC staff members and one more SILC graduate student.
08/10/2007 There are now 115 members in our Spatial Network. There are also two more SILC staff members and four more SILC undergraduate students.
08/10/2007UPDATE Fall Lecture Series Schedule:
October
10/1: University of Chicago Fall Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Jack Loomis
10/8: University of Chicago Fall Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Barbara Landau
10/15: University of Chicago Fall Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Liz Spelke
10/22: Temple University Fall Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Verne Bingman
November
11/5: University of Chicago Fall Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Lynn Liben
11/7: Temple University Fall Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Mike Goodchild
11/12: University of Chicago Fall Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Steve Kosslyn
08/03/2007 There are now 114 members in our Spatial Network.
07/19/2007 There are now 113 members in our Spatial Network.
07/17/2007 There are now 109 members in our Spatial Network. Visit the Spatial Network Members page. The Bibliography page has also been up-dated. Note that a distribution email list has been made for the Network members. Information regarding this list will be sent to the network members soon.
07/17/2007 Information about the Visualization Assessment and Training (VIZ) website has been added to the Resources page.
07/13/2007 Fall Lecture Series Schedule (more info coming):
October
10/1: University of Chicago Fall Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Jack Loomis
10/8: University of Chicago Fall Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Barbara Landau
10/15: University of Chicago Fall Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Liz Spelke
10/22: Temple University Fall Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Verne Bingman
November
11/5: University of Chicago Fall Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Lynn Liben
11/7: Temple University Fall Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Mike Goodchild
11/12: University of Chicago Fall Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Steve Kosslyn
07/12/2007 Video Game Experience survey added to the Resources page. Also, soon to be posted: info on our Fall 2007 speakers.
07/11/2007 This website is continually evolving. Check-out the following recent changes on this site:
There is a new Resources page, which has been recently updated. There will be additions made to the Resources page in the coming weeks.
Check out the Bibliography page. It contains relevant reference materials cited and/or published by our SILC members, as well as relevant works published by our Network members.
04/19/2007 News article in the Northwestern Observer: How do humans process information? (.html file.pdf file)
Read our latest updates and incoming news below or for SILC in the press go to our Press Room (click on PRESS ROOM icon above).
11/20/2008 Please, welcome Dale S. Klopfer to our Network. There are now 198 members in our Spatial Network!
11/19/2008 Welcome to our new SILC Undergraduate Members: Jennifer Conner, Sarah Hittinger, Rania McCauley, Maria Namowicz, katherine Nescio, Teuta Pasholli, Eman Saleh, Caryn Trasken and Allison Wolkin.
11/12/2008 We have added a blurb in our Press Room on Tim Shipley's research on using point-light displays for studying perceptual form processing. Some of the displays from the archive will be featured in a small segment on an upcoming Discovery Channel program, "The Science of Sex Appeal."
11/12/2008 Information about the Research in Spatial Cognition Lab (RISC) added to our Members page.
11/12/2008 Call for Papers:Spatial Cognition and Computation: Special Issue on You-Are-Here Maps --Creating Spatial Awareness through Map-like Representations
11/11/2008 Please, welcome our new SILC Postdocs: Andrea Frick and Daniele Nardi of Temple University.
11/05/2008 UPDATE:Two documents for the Spatial Learning in Geography Workshop have been up-dated and are now available.
11/04/2008 UPDATE: Some documents for the Spatial Learning in Geography Workshop will be up-dated/corrected and put on-line on Wednesday, 11/5/08.
added to the Bibliography page.
